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Moving to Hyper-V with CDP


Hi all,

 

We’ve been running VMware in our environment, but over the past 6 months we’ve been trying to obtain proper VMware licenses. Unfortunately, despite multiple attempts, we haven’t received any response from Broadcom or its partners.

 

Due to this ongoing delay, we’ve decided to transition to Hyper-V instead. However, we’d like to keep both systems running for a while and ideally use CDP (Continuous Data Protection) or some kind of replication from VMware to Hyper-V during the transition.

 

Has anyone set up CDP or replication from VMware to Hyper-V? Any tools or solutions you’d recommend to ensure minimal downtime and data integrity during the switchover?

 

Thanks in advance for your input.

2 comments

Chris.Childerhose
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CDP is only available for VMware so you would need to use Veeam Replication to transition to Hyper-V.  You could also add the host to Veeam and restore to Hyper-V.


Tommy O'Shea
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  • March 30, 2025

It is not possible to replicate or use CDP between VMWare and Hyper-V. You are limited to using backup and restore operations only.

There are a couple resources that may be useful to you. The first one appears to show tips around planning and executing your migration, but doesn’t use Veeam to perform the actual migration.

The second one shows how to take a backup of the VMWare VM and use it to perform an Instant Recovery to Hyper-V and finalize it by migrating it to production.

VMware to Hyper-V Migration: Best Practices

Veeam Hypervisor Migration to Hyper-V Guide (PDF)